January 21st, 2010

Manufacturers are continually challenged with ‘make or buy’ decisions. Elements of the make or buy decision include: maximising margin, minimising risk, core business focus, supporting and sustaining the process, process reliability and control, nature of technology (e.g. disruptive vs core)

Electroplating is an example of a process sometimes considered more appropriate to hold in-house. However the trend in recent years is toward outsourcing of this process. Why? Read the rest of this entry »

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December 7th, 2009

A Class Metal Finishers (Pty Ltd) Celebrated our first 20 years in business in 2009.

We feel like we’ve come a long way after starting up in 1989 with just 3 employees!  Couldn’t even count the amount of metal we’ve electroplated onto people’s products (in the hundreds of tonnes).  It would be great get some comments on this blog from customers we have plated or polished jobs for.  What have you thought about our service?  Did you think we’d make it to 20 years? What are your predictions for our future?

Here’s a pic of “the boys” taken on our “birthday”

From left: Phil, Greg & Rod Wood - some of A Class's owners and founders

Have a great day and hope to see or hear from you some time soon!

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